General Manager

Employment Type: Full-time

Available Positions: 1

Location: On-Site

Application Deadline: January 30th, 2025

Summary

The General Manager will be responsible for implementing strategic directives to enhance the facility's competitive position and achieve business goals. Leading a team of supervisors and managers, you will direct plans to control safety, environmental compliance, production outputs, CAPEX and operational budgets, labor efficiency, engineering effectiveness, facility maintenance and reliability, warehousing management, labor relations, and employee utilization.

Key Activities

• Compliance and Safety: Ensure compliance with OSHA and company EHS (Environmental, Health, and Safety) regulations. Continuously improve safety measures to provide a safe work environment for all employees.
• Quality and Environmental Standards: Maintain adherence to company Quality and Environmental standards, ensuring product safety, legality, and quality systems.
• Budget Management: Develop and manage the annual operating and capital budgets. Monitor and control CAPEX and operational spending, preparing monthly and year-to-date analyses comparing actual performance against budget.
• Production Management: Oversee all production operations to meet demand, maintain reliability, and ensure facility and equipment are in optimal condition.
• Resource Allocation: Strategically allocate resources to achieve plant goals and objectives. Maintain adequate inventory levels to ensure continuous production and sufficient finished goods.
• Engineering and Maintenance: Drive improvements in plant productivity through engineering changes and effective facility/equipment maintenance and reliability.
• Labor Efficiency and Workforce Development: Schedule labor levels to meet production and shipping plans, utilizing temporary personnel during peak periods. Develop the workforce for succession planning and ensure effective utilization of employees.
• Performance Management: Oversee performance management for direct reports and the entire site. Formulate and implement manufacturing strategies that align with company and local objectives.
• Communication and Relations: Maintaining good relations with salaried and bargaining unit employees. Conduct regular meetings to ensure effective communication across the plant.
• Inventory and Supply Chain Management: Develop and review inventory control systems for bulk, package, and raw materials. Plan timely delivery of raw materials, including bags, pallet covers, slip sheets, additives, labels, and third-party purchased products.
• Security and Unloading Operations: Ensure site security is maintained at all times. Manage all aspects of vessel unloading, coordinating schedules and personnel for efficient and safe transfer of inbound products.
• Policy Compliance: Ensure all employees understand and comply with company policies and procedures.
• Deputy Management: Ensure the Production Manager is fully briefed and prepared to assume Facility Manager responsibilities in the latter's absence, acting as the designated deputy for Quality systems.

Preferred Skills

• Strong leadership skills, demonstrating respect, inclusion, cooperation, and responsibility (RICR). Ability to inspire and motivate teams towards achieving common goals.
• Proven ability to lead and manage organizational change effectively
• Ability to effectively resolve conflicts and negotiate solutions

Educations & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other related technical degree.
• Minimum of 10 years of manufacturing experience, including a minimum of five (5) years in Production, Technical, or Maintenance management roles.
• Minimum of five (5) years of management experience is preferred

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Job ID: 7625